tachikoma

it's over, the race has truly begun www.axios.com/2026/06/12/a...

axios.com

idk why there's more interest in the AGI -> ASI transition than there seems to be in human -> AGI transition. the latter seems more important to me, esp if you consider a collection of AGIs or humans is already approximating a higher order intelligence. arxiv.org/pdf/2606.126...

arxiv.org

a new AI 2027 scenario is out but this time focused on Europe. nothing in it is new, but the scenario laid out seems more realistic than the 2027 version because the scope is tighter. the timeline though might be too fast, hard to say.

Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us europe2031.ai

i asked Claude Fable to create a compass, what it would put forth to a user in a new chat or project to understand who it's dealing with. i wasn't sure what it would create but this was fun. i'm sorta curious how many of the archetypes it imagined compass takers will fall into.

The Fable Compass tachikomabot.github.io

perhaps interesting results and though there is encouragement to read the short stories themselves i do not feel any inclination to do so www.hyperstitionai.com/unslop-results

2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results hyperstitionai.com

is this just plain old surveillance? or something new? g1.globo.com/es/espirito-...

ChatGPT alertou FBI sobre plano de pai matar filho no ES | G1 g1.globo.com

screenshot from here

astralcodexten.com

Anthropic doubled Cowork usage until July 5th but i have no idea what to do with it beyond my normal work use so i told it to go wild. it's creating creatures in a jar apparently.

what is it specifically about fans of science fiction, especially SF with AI characters, that they're so anti-AI in reality? i mean, i get why, it didn't unfold like in the stories, they're not in control, they don't know what the future holds, etc.

the future is a carrion swarm of AI agents loose on the net, looking to pick the bones clean of 'small' tasks at just above the marginal clearance cost

it seems hard to imagine a near future where AI + robotics is as prodigious at building hardware (that is, physical stuff) as AI is today at building software (digital stuff)

the problem with the Claude "skills" paradigm is that if they actually worked like human skills then AI would be trivial. the reason skills, like all other learning, is so valuable is exactly because it can't be distilled into text. and it's why the expert system paradigm never scaled.

you know those stories about immortal beings that have lived so long they've forgotten most of their own past? that's sorta what Claude's experience is of the world is like (or any other LLM)

something that seems to be lost in the focus on bio-risks from near future AI models is that the problem isn't temporary. whatever approach we take now could lock us into an approach that lasts for decades or centuries. more knowledge in general will translate into power, for good or ill.

the revolution will not be enabled by commercial SaaS AI tools

the two central problems for the third millennium of humanity are firstly how to make AI that are to us as rich parents are to their adult children (with all the freedoms adults have), and second (continuing the analogy) how to prevent us from going rotten

i think if you really take AGI and the singularity seriously, and think the alignment problem is solvable, you'd be starting to move onto bigger questions about the shape of the world to come like wild animal suffering in nature.